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Thursday 26 May 2011

Voiceworks 2010/2011 Concert Performance at Wigmore Hall

The culmination of the Voiceworks 2011 programme was performed live at Wigmore Hall on Thursday 26 May 2011 at 18.00.

The performance lasted 70 minutes, was performed in front of a large audience and was free to attend.

This is the fifth year of this unique collaboration between poets from the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck, and composers, singers and instrumentalists from Guildhall School of Music & Drama. New works for voice are created from a long process of exchange, improvisation and practice between October-May, and the resulting songs are a sign of the vibrancy and creative potential of a new generation of work. Many previous participants have gone on to collaborate on projects in Britain and internationally, or have developed their practice in new directions because of their Voiceworks experience, and it’s a chance to encounter their work first, here.

Displayed here are video recordings and photographs of the concert itself, and of the rehersals on the day.

Part 1: Group 3 - Steven Fowler, Wenjing Wang, Hadleigh Adams ,  Lucy Roberts  -
The Righteous Harmony Society Movement

Voiceworks Concert 2011 @ Wigmore Hall - Part 1 (Group 3) from voiceworks project on Vimeo.

Steven Fowler, oration
Hadleigh Adams , baritone
 Lucy Roberts , soprano
Zhiying Wei, trombone

Part 2: Group 7 - Frank Podmore , Tom Bassett, Nick Allen, Marion Wyllie -
Spectrum Of A Theory

Voiceworks Concert 2011 @ Wigmore Hall - Part 2 (Group 7) from voiceworks project on Vimeo.

Tom Bassett, conductor
Nick Allen, tenor
Marion Wyllie, soprano
Calie Hough, percussion
Lauren Knuckey, oboe

Part 3: Group 2 - Liz Adams , Tom Kimber , Ciarán O'Leary -
Neon

Voiceworks Concert 2011 @ Wigmore Hall - Part 3 (Group 2) from voiceworks project on Vimeo.

Ciarán O'Leary, tenor
Pauline Mikolajczyk, cello
Ventsislav Harkov, cello
Donald Bennet, cello

Part 4: Group 5 - Ghazal Mosadeq, Michail Palaiologou,  Joseph Padfield  -
A Waning Bird

Voiceworks Concert 2011 @ Wigmore Hall - Part 4 (Group 5) from voiceworks project on Vimeo.

Michail Palaiologou, conductor
Joseph Padfield , baritone
Detta Danford, shukahachi
Marco Atzei, percussion
Murdo Macrae, harp
Yutaka Shimoda, violin
Natasha Zielazinska, cello

Part 5: Group 6 - Vicky Sparrow, Jason Anderson , Sarah Jenks,  Claudia Myles  -
Seirenas

Voiceworks Concert 2011 @ Wigmore Hall - Part 5 (Group 6) from voiceworks project on Vimeo.

Benjamin Gernon, conductor
Sarah Jenks,  soprano
Claudia Myles,  soprano
Emily Heathcote, clarinet
Mary Noden, oboe
Katelyn Westergard, violin
Sophia Jagodzinska, cello
Laura Murphy, double bass
Jason Anderson, speaker amp (tape track)

Part 6: Group 1 - James Wilkes, Benjamin Graves , Donna Lennard , Daniel Rudge  -
Suzanne's Secret II: Bechstein-Kultur-Film Version

Voiceworks Concert 2011 @ Wigmore Hall - Part 6 (Group 1) from voiceworks project on Vimeo.

Donna Lennard , soprano
Daniel Rudge , baritone
Stephen Upshaw, viola
Gareth Ceredig, percussion

Part 7: Group 4 - John Mackay , Peter Yarde Martin, Charlotte Beament -
A Guide To Touching The Human Heart

Voiceworks Concert 2011 @ Wigmore Hall - Part 7 (Group 4) from voiceworks project on Vimeo.

Peter Yarde Martin, conductor
Lucy Roberts, suprano
Jessica Kabirat, flute
Max Mausen, clarinet
Craig Apps, percussion
Leah Meredith, violin
Abigain Hayward, cello

Here are some videos and photographs of the rehersals at Wigmore Hall in progress earlier in the day:

Group 4 - John Mackay , Peter Yarde Martin, Charlotte Beament -
A Guide To Touching The Human Heart

Voiceworks Concert 2011 @ Wigmore Hall - rehearsal (Group 4) from voiceworks project on Vimeo.

Peter Yarde Martin, conductor
Lucy Roberts, suprano
Jessica Kabirat, flute
Max Mausen, clarinet
Craig Apps, percussion
Leah Meredith, violin
Abigain Hayward, cello

Group 3 - Steven Fowler, Wenjing Wang, Hadleigh Adams ,  Lucy Roberts  -
The Righteous Harmony Society Movement

Voiceworks Concert Rehersal 2011 @ Wigmore Hall (Group 3) from voiceworks project on Vimeo.

Steven Fowler, oration
Hadleigh Adams , baritone

This digital project, led from the CPRC Birkbeck with Guildhall colleagues and partners Wigmore Learning is funded by the AHRC. It is allowing us to: archive materials and make new work available from the last five years of the project; document the ongoing collaborative process as it thinks through the practice and languages of diverse and complex traditions of voice, music composition, and text; record new work as it happens; create a major resource in the field for free access; and generate new kinds of practice, exchange and debate which might find a home on the site.